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Fat Controller CQRS Diet

I’ve been meaning to create a sample application that uses the MediatR library to dispatch command and queries.  All of this organizing and writing your code in vertical slices rather than layers. Why? I can only speak from my experiences and how I came to applying CQRS with mediator pattern.  Hopefully you can can relate and translate it to your own code base and determine if it is a right fit for you. And that’s really important.  Is it a right fit for your application. What this series will demonstrate is not to be used as silver bullet. Nor should… Read More »Fat Controller CQRS Diet

DebuggerDisplay for Better Debugging

Just wanted to make a quick post about a long forgotten friend the DebuggerDisplay attribute. The DebuggerDisplayAttribute Class controls how an object, property, or field is displayed in the debugger variable windows. This attribute can be applied to types, delegates, properties, fields, and assemblies. The DebuggerDisplay attribute has a single argument, which is a string to be displayed in the value column for instances of the type. This string can contain braces ({ and }). Text within a pair of braces is evaluated as a field, property or method. Example So here I’m going to have a Person class.  I’m… Read More »DebuggerDisplay for Better Debugging

Why use Nancy?

On one of my posts showing how you can use Nancy with ASP.NET Core, David Anderson posted the following comment I came across some Nancy blogpost last week and got curious about it and so looked on internet for more information. I wanted to know why should someone use Nancy and why plain asp.net core is not sufficient. So far every place I look I see the same introduction, you know that one with ‘…super-duper-happy-path…’. But to be honest it’s still not clear ‘why’? What is it that someone can not do in ASP.NET Core which is ‘super-duper’ in Nancy?… Read More »Why use Nancy?